Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula

al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula (AQSP) was an Egyptian militant jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda, founded on 5 August 2006 by a merger of al-Qaeda operatives in the Sinai Peninsula and Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami. Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the group's creation from a faction of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; it grew from 40 militants in 2011 to 9,000 fighters in 2013 before shrinking to 1,000 in 2018.